A Grammar of Prinmi : : based on the central dialect of northwest Yunnan, China / / Picus Sizhi Ding.

• Superior document: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, Volume 5/14
• VerfasserIn: Ding, Picus Sizhi,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Languages of the greater Himalayan region.; Brill's Tibetan studies library ; Volume 5/14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (405 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

A Grammar of Prinmi represents the first in-depth description of a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Pǔmǐ Nationality and the Zàng Nationality (in Mùlǐ, Sichuan) in southwest China. Prinmi belongs to the Qiangic branch and is closely related to the extinct language of Tangut. Picus Ding examines in the grammar the phonology (both segmental and suprasegmental), morphology, syntax and information structure of Prinmi, with two sample texts and an English-Prinmi glossary provided in appendices. Some noteworthy features of Prinmi include a wealth of clitics (appearing as proclitic, enclitic, mesoclitic or endoclitic), a lexical tone system akin to Japanese, and a collection of existential verbs that discriminates concreteness, animacy, and location.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material -- Introduction -- Segmental Phonology -- The Suprasegmentals -- Lexical Categories -- Morphology -- Grammatical Functions of Noun Phrase -- Structure of Noun Phrases -- Grammatical Categories of Verbs -- The Copula, Existentials and Auxiliary Verbs -- Clauses and Sentences -- Complex Predicates -- Information Structure -- Sample Texts -- Word List and Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index to Languages -- General Index.